Motivational Quotes

Reality

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

- Dr. Karl Menninger

Best Quotes about Reality

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Dick, Philip K.

You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Pavese, Cesare

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Eliot, George

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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Rushdie, Salman

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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Stevens, Wallace

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One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

Bell, Marvel

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Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks.

Ellen Herman

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The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Stevens, Wallace

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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun

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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Lee, Bruce

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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

Kohler, Wolfgang

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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Stein, Gertrude

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Moore, George

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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Weil, Simone

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinger

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Weil, Simone

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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Woolf, Virginia

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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Stein, Ben

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Cocteau, Jean

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hesse, Hermann

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

Kennedy, John F.

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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

Sales, Raoul De

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It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Lee, Al

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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Lily Tomlin